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ok, to play grammar jerk, Dr Orthotwerp "rents from Dr Pissy and me", not I.

The way to remember how to get it right is to remove the "other-noun and" (or "and other-noun"). So, Dr Orthotwerp "rents from [...] me."

It feels wrong, because we get hammered about saying "Bob and me went to do this" - but that's wrong because "me went to do this" is wrong. The correction gets made to "Bob and I" without the explanation, leaving people making knee-jerk corrections that are often incorrect.

In related news, Dr Orthotwerp is an idjit. But that, you knew.

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I have a feeling, though, Suzy has a very similar mindset, and would be the first to achieve something with the electrical company, were that possible. At least our secretaries are a lot more gung-ho about getting things done than the rest of the hospital.

One of my favorite memories was being in an OR while a CARDIAC SURGEON was operating and yelling into a phone being held up to his ear. "You cannot turn off my power! Do you know who I AM?!! My wife is on the city council!! You will be sorry!!!" And then he said amazed "She hung up on me." It still makes me laugh. I am sure the person talking to him would have personally pushed the button turning off his power!

Cellphones would work in a power outage, as well as old-style rotary dial phones, provided you have a land line and non-digital type service. Thus, after a hurricane a few years ago, we had phone service, but no power for a week. We could call relatives to tell them we were fine, but thankfully they could not smell our laundry bin.....

Sounds like one of the doctors i work for. A few months ago there was an earthquake on the east coast, and being in delaware we were affected, not only was he inconvienced by the earth quake but he wanted me to hurry up the fire marshal so we could re enter the building

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